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India reports a second night of firing by Pakistan... Meanwhile Iran and Saudi Arabia are urging restraint and seeking... In Serbia two suspects arrested wanted...conspiring against a Chinese government critic living in California... The credit rating of the City of Los Angeles downgraded... Israeli air defenses downing a missile fired by Houthi forces in Yemen... The Trump Administration deciding to restore student visa status... President Trump saying tonight that Russia and Ukraine are very close... The US Department of Education launching a probe into foreign funding of... The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signing a letter of intent to...

Newsdump Alert: The US Supreme Court deciding early this morning to prevent a deportation flight from Texas to El Salvador. The American Civil Liberties Union has sought emergency action... China remains a powerful economic engine its Gross Domestic Product grew 5.4 percent in the first quarter... "Now something happened this week that I think merits our discussion and that is that President Trump came out with a statement on Easter... Back to the early pre-commercial and pre-praise and worship days of Christian Music it's the 1970's sound... "When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four...

The China War Update... Well China getting their chops in selling low-price products online and your poor neighbors are scooping it up bringing in billions for Chinese owned... But what about that other kind of war, the shooting war if you will defense experts here in the US laying it out... Here I am again your host a luster, liar, thief and a character assassin a leader of sinners deserving Hell but thanks be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and shedding of his blood for this sinner and all sinners... "Fight Oligarchy" Who is the "oligarchy" if you...

Want to switch addictions this weekend the local casino has some offers to lure in new customers for overspending just a sign of how money is getting short in our inflationary age... "During his trial at Inner London Crown Court, jurors had to watch footage found on Zou's devices of nine of the rapes. Zou, now 28, claimed he has been..."... Not too many weeks ago Congresswoman Nancy Mace told a sordid story... That kind of image takes me back to "Ancient Art and Archaeology" in high school and college classes the "temples" with graven images of... The raging sexual...

This week a US State Department spokesperson echoing the message of impeached South Korean... The new FBI Director Kash Patel out tonight... defending... US Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling CNN European countries want to keep the Ukraine War going...Rubio also saying...Zelensky needs to apologize... "Zelensky cannot make peace with Moscow he would be removed within days...opinion of British journalist... A group of nations will meet in London on Sunday...Zelensky will be there... Ukraine, The Washington Post reports the US may stop shipments of military... The FBI returning property seized from President Trump... In New Mexico the Santa Fe County...

This week the first song from the 1980's "Starship" which evolved from "Jefferson Airplane" released a hit song in the 1980's and the iconic Grace Slick one of the lead singers... lets go the "January 6th Prisoner Update"... a Trump Putin Update will the two leaders meet but one asks where the location should be for their meeting. Maybe they should meet at... How does Russia see the Ukraine War waged against it and its interests ending?... "On June 14, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the leadership of the Foreign Ministry outlined the conditions for a...

A New Year and I got out of bed and went to work on New Year's Day at 7am. Normal routine was a good thing that day getting out of normal routine this time of year does things that are negative IMHO... Four Years Since January 6th An Event That Started On 9/11/2001 It was in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks that government intelligence and law enforcement power was ratcheted up first to fight International Terrorism International Extremism Eventually this power would be expanded into realms of alleged Domestic Terrorism Domestic Extremism... Newsdump Update: Russia Warns Of Response...

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time" Romans 8:22... Corporate Media Corporate Drama Corporate Murder This week the arrest of Luigi Mangione in the murder of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. It looks like this young man was obsessed with some injustices real or imagined felt the need to 'change society'. I reflected on my own youth a little bit and there was this obsession in my childish youth I mean in my 20's back in the 1980's to "change society"... I read some folks saying...

It's December and seems the right time to play music related to Christmas back in the 1970's Boney M... "I'm praying for you China" Those lyrics in that song wow! We were all praying for China when it opened up opening up opportunities for evangelism in my youth. Well, the situation with China today is... It seems to me listening to folks like Gordon Chang a decade before COVID that China was in the crosshairs to become 'the enemy'... COVID was more than its 'origin' it was lockdowns, masks and vaccines... As I reflect on March of 2020 I was...

Support Free Republic Many of our posts get reposted on "Free Republic" a premier conservative website often used by Rush Limbaugh for his show prep. El Rushbo referenced one of my posts... We will start with three hits on the radio 50 years ago today... "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body is full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:22-23... "God's grace for us in Christ...

The first song this week I have memories of hearing on the radio even back when it was first on the radio in 1965... It's time for a Kim Jong-Un Update Sir Elton John sings "Rocket Man"... Israel never joined the arms supply orgy in Ukraine even when it wasn't at war. Ukrainian nationalism was a Handmaiden of the Holocaust. How does the modern Western World resemble Nazi Germany? "Nazi art drew from two themes, and two alone; Pornography and Militarism" Journalist Howard K. Smith "Last Train From Berlin"... one should not make the mistake and I don't think many...

The first song this week I surely wanted to be a disc jockey when I was a teenager and I loved country music. Rush Limbaugh had a vision of being a disc jockey... Darrell Mansfield singing "Higher Power" I've been in places where the "Higher Power" is often referred to in the last 16 plus going on 17 years. "Keep Coming Back"... But before I intoxicated myself I experienced pain in my life last Sunday in church I heard this message... The Hitchens Brothers the late Christopher known as the "Atheist" Peter know as the "Christian" both expressed Pro-Life opinion...

An Israeli airstrike in Damascus early Thursday with injuries reported... US politics CNN with a news leak saying the US Justice Department has warned Elon Musk over his activities in support of Donald Trump... Saudi Arabia confirming recent participation in military exercises with Iran and other nations in the Gulf of Oman... The Turkish military and Turkish militias in northern Syria attacking Kurdish positions in Syria... British and American forces attacking Houthi targets in Yemen... In Canada today a Liberal Party caucus meeting where a group of 24 Liberal MP's asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down... In the...

The first song one that is a "Sanity Test Song" and when I first heard it... An "Escaping Reality Update" The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" is the theme song... "What is most irresistible is the image-ingestion aspect of our relation to photos. Eye-candy. They taste so good! They feed an appetite. They feed the appetite they create. Both the appetite and food are pseudo. Have we become more prone to ingest image reality than experience real reality (whatever that is)?..."... The Late Ron J (Roy Kuljian) Writes Of Image Junkies Decades Ago In His Book "Lust Virus" Considering Mere Photographs......

Barbra Streisand sings "Avinu Malkeinu" which translated from Hebrew is "Our Father, Our King" a song associated with these Jewish Holy Days from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur that we now find ourselves in. It's a song of repentance which is my theme... How about a Pro-Life Update this song Number One when Abortion on Demand... This repentant sinner as Pro-Life as he ever was admitting his pride, vanity and his lust can end up having Anti-Life consequences. A Recovering Luster and a Recovering Politician the game in politics is to be saying what a majority of people are believing...

Introducing the first song the singer is celebrating her 78th birthday today... Your host back with you across the fruited plain and beyond. El Rushbo's 'fruited plain' I actually realized with my own eyes looking eastwards from Colorado Springs in 2016... Your self-righteous, justice-seeking hypocrite host grateful for the finished work of Jesus... Was it only yesterday that Russell Brand was saying pornographic things on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday morning... Every day I go out there and keep my eyes on the... October 7th means Benjamin Netanyahu has freedom to act to do whatever he wants in fact he...

Your host back with you again it's good to be moving forward a mature adult in the room with you more grown up. "Puff the Magic Dragon" the little boy leaves childhood fantasy... I got the newsgathering instinct back then would write down what I heard and take it to school to tell others at the lunch table about what I heard from the other places. And here I am your host... Obsession with politics leads to other kinds of obsession frankly... I was one within 24 inches of Taylor Swift early in her career she was working the autograph...

I continue to feel the strong stirring here the change of heart the repentance so allow me to share: "We are afflicted in every way but not crushed: perplexed but not driven to despair. Persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. Always carrying in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us but...

Nothing but the blood of Jesus saves me from my wickedness. Christ is Coming every time the Middle East heats up I go back to the preaching and messaging of my teenage years about a Second Coming of Jesus.... Well it's time for a Benjamin Netanyahu Update the pride of Cheltenham High School Class of 1967 Bibi went to high school on the doorstep of Philadelphia... And how does Israel deal with the United Kingdom and its new "Soviet" leader? Tommy Robinson has openly identified himself as Pro-Israel while Sir Keir Starmer tries to steer a less friendly course purging...

Breaking News Newsdump Alert Assassination Attempt On President Donald Trump... "The World Disorder" Visible palpable political instability in our midst a new untested British government, confusion in France's legislature with strong power of the French Presidency the only certainty. Then there's Joe Biden and someone tried to kill Donald Trump... Newsdump Update: "'Shocking and brutal massacre': World reacts to Israel's al-Mawasi attack..." Bibi Netanyahu the Machiavelli of Our Times.... China and Russia got beat around at the NATO Summit this week but the presence of those leaders from Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand clearly shows an expansion of...